UNICS is still a leader!

Date: 04 february 2018
Source: Press BC UNICS
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UNICS today put up a starting five: Melvin Ejim, Quino Colom, Stephane Lasme, Trenton Lockett, Evgeny Kolesnikov, as in the previous home game against Parma. Lasme made a beautiful block shot and rebounded. From afar came Ejim, then Lockett, 5: 0. Another "three" from Kolesnikov, 8: 0 three minutes after the start of the match. Guests were able to score their first points by Devon Saddler's efforts only four and a half minutes after the start of the game, 8: 2.UNICS continued to play without substitutions. Anton Ponkrashov and Vladislav Trushkin entered the game with a score of 13: 2 for 3-42 until the end of the starting quarter. Jamar Smith came out and immediately got from behind the arc, 18: 2. He was followed by a three-pointer from Ponkrashov, 21: 2, an impressive score for the first quarter. Justin Gray from the guests, 25: 4. Only under the shield the Minskers managed to create competition, the rebounds 13-9.

With the beginning of the second quarter, Maurice Ndour and Grigory Shukhovtsov entered the game, the latter scored with the first touch, 29: 6. The guests after the first break were noticeably cheered up, and in four minutes scored three times more points than in the first quarter, 35:16. By that time the whole "start" of UNICS had gone to deserved rest, which was not noticeable in the dynamics of the change, 40:16. One Trushkin managed to make two precise long-range hits, 43:18. Cherapovich makes the long-range shot, 43:23. It's time to play for Pavel Sergeyev. He scored the three-pointer at the last second, 53:25.

During the break, the hosts calmed down, so much that two or more minutes could not score a single point, having received three three-pointers "in a row", 53:34 for this time. Only then, finally, Sergeyev scored from a far. Koshcheev entered the game. 62:37 from the hands of Lasme. UNICS made four three-pointers in a row, "Tsmoki-Minsk" - the same number. Guests lost Dmitry Poleshchuk, he received the fifth foul in the middle of the quarter. Closer to the end of the period, the hosts are already 30 points a head, 69:39. Finally, Ndour opened his personal account with an impressive dunk, 71:39.

In the final quarter, Alexander Kudryavtsev from Tsmoki Minsk made two consecutive long-range hits, 73:47, making a spectacular breakthrough 10-0. Ejim received a fifth foul. Whatever it was, the fate of the meeting no longer caused any questions.